Woodstock nay, Jackass Museum, yay
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- October
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In case you missed it, CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported that the town of Bishop, Calif., wanted to spend $50,000 in federal funds to study the possibility of a mule museum.
You read that right: a memorial to jackasses.
Bishop, by the way, is the Mule Capital of the World. Who knew?
So lawmakers mock the notion of federal money to going to a museum to Woodstock, a seminal if psychedelic moment in history. But here’s a Republican congressman, U.S. Republican Buck McKeon, who thinks a mule museum deserves the money.
Which one do you think will be the bigger draw?
PHOTOS: A mulemanship clinic in Medina, Ohio, in September. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Lonnie Timmons III)
Veteran American explorer Gene Savoy stands beside his mule during an expedition to Peru’s northern highland jungle in 1985. (AP Photo)
Two girls ride on a mule at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Mo., over the summer. (AP Photo/Sedalia Democrat, Sydney Brink)
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